Champion Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 2012

Closed in 2023

Contact
324 6th St SE, Charlottesville, VA, 22902, United States
Description
Champion brewing company is Virginia's most progressive brewery, producing a wide variety of ales in two locations: our downtown Charlottesville tap room and our Belmont production facility. Our production brewery known as the 'missile factory' produces our core and seasonal beers on a 30-barrel brewhouse, at a current operating capacity of 15,000 barrels per year. Our original tap room produces constantly changing and innovative seasonals, one-offs, and barrel-aged wild beers.

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6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Cloudy gold with a big white head. Creamy citrus and pith. Creamy citrus and a little bite in the finish. Decent.
Tried from Can on 17 Aug 2021 at 22:51

7.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 oz. can from Total Wine - Melbourne. Pours a pitch black color with dark ruby highlights and a tight beige head with great retention. Spotty lacing. Pretty pour. Aroma of dark malts, molasses, and some dark chocolate. The flavor follows the nose with just a hint of coffee. All the elements are present in equal amounts. Low bitterness. Low carbonation. Medium-heavy body with a creamy mouthfeel. Smooth, clean finish. Not really robust, but a good porter.
Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2021 at 23:45

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can, Wegmans. Hazy pale gold with a white head. Nose smells like watermelon to me, but I suppose it's passionfruit, green leaf, and sea salt. Flavor is definitely passionfruit... green leaf, bread crust, salt... like salt salt.
Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2021 at 21:35

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can, Wegmans. Hazy gold, almost neon in this light, white head. Green onion, citrus peel, pale malt nose. Pine, indiscernible citrus peel, light stone fruit, caramel, light vanilla. Missing something.
Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2021 at 20:34

7/10
Hazy gold body small foamy white head. Tart fruit and citrus aroma. Tart fruit and citrus flavor. Medium light body moderate carbonation. 7/3/8/3/15 3.6
Tried from Draft on 15 Jul 2021 at 19:21

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Cloudy gold with a small white head. Lime and lemon sour ess with a briny note. Sour and salty, refreshing and nice.
Tried from Can on 10 Jul 2021 at 17:20

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Roast and coffee. Nice balance here, and nice robust porter. Hopefully this starts to turn up more often in D.C. area like some of their other beers. Black pour with good head and lacing. Some sharp bark. Bitter finish. Nice body, earthy kind of texture. Can.
Tried from Can on 02 Jun 2021 at 21:43

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
$1.95 can, WW. Clear gold with a white head. Floral hops, bread rust, light earthy notes in the nose. Floral hops, caramel malt, bread crust, some fruity notes. tasty.
Tried from Can on 22 May 2021 at 21:10

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Strong medium roast coffee aroma. Black, thin tan head. Coffee and charcoal. Full body, easy carbonation, alcohol is well concealed. Heavily flavored, underlying base beer is very toasty.
Tried on 13 Apr 2021 at 01:53

7/10
Dark pour. Thin foam. Sweet nose of coffee and chocolate nibs. Strong coffee flavor with a strong coffee earthy finish. Easy carbonation.
Tried on 13 Apr 2021 at 01:52